It should be obvious, considering
the photo to the left, who John Bolton, the Straussian neocon “representative”
to the United Nations, works for—the American-Israel Political Action
Committee. “U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking
at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security
Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about
doing so and Washington is ‘beefing up defensive measures to cope
with the Iranian nuclear threat,’” in other words the Pentagon
is preparing to shock and awe Iran, maybe later this month, but probably
down the road, sooner before later.

“Bolton reaffirmed that the United States does
not see the security council moving quickly to impose sanctions on Iran,
but he pointedly noted that ‘many other governments have begun to
include the word sanctions in their discourse on Iran,’ implying they
may take action outside the security council.” As was the case with
the Iraq invasion, the United Nations is considered irrelevant. “Will
the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding or will it be irrelevant?”
Bush asked the Security Council in September, 2002, a couple months before
his neocon handlers invaded Iraq. Bolton is setting up a re-run.

Recall Condi’s Boy Friday, neocon national security
adviser Stephen Hadley, suspected of the vicious outing of Valerie Plame,
telling AIPAC last November that the “spread of democracy [i.e., invading
various Arab and Muslim countries] will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood
for Israel. An American retreat from Iraq, on the other hand, would only
strengthen the terrorists who seek the enslavement of Iraq and the eventual
destruction of Israel.” In other words, the two thousand plus (and
actually closer to 10,000) Americans killed in Iraq were sacrificed to make
a “safer neighborhood for Israel.”

Philip Zelikow, executive director of Bush’s
nine eleven whitewash commission, said as much. “I’ll tell you
what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it’s
the threat against Israel,” Zelikow told a crowd at the University
of Virginia on September 10, 2002. “And the American government doesn’t
want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell,”
Zelikow added, admitting that the real reason for invasion and occupation
must be hidden from the American people.

“Israel’s long-term survival depends upon
the spread of democracy in the Middle East,” Bush declared last December
(simply replace the word “democracy” with “submission”
and you have a better idea of what Bush was saying). Commenting on Bush’s
remark, Bruce Blakeman, billed as a “GOP activist,” told the
Forward that Bush (meaning the Straussian neocons) “realized not only
that Saddam Hussein was a danger to America, but that Saddam Hussein had
designs on attacking Israel. There was a concern that an attack on Israel
would turn into a regional war, with Syria and Iran joining in on Iraq’s
side,” a comment that is at odds with reality and a load of hooey
to boot.

As the late Livia Rokach, daughter of Israel Rokach,
Minister of the Interior in the government of Moshe Sharett, second prime
minister of Israel, has noted, Israel has not only consistently provoked
its Arab neighbors, but also has a long and sordid track record of sabotaging
U.S. relations with Arab nations. Rokach, writes Naseer H. Aruri in a forward
to Rokach’s book (Israel’s Sacred Terrorism), documents “deliberate
Israeli acts of provocation, intended to generate Arab hostility and thus
to create pretexts for armed action and territorial expansion.”

“AIPAC has increasingly tilted to the Likud in
Israel, and to the political Right in the United States,” notes Juan
Cole. “A handful of special interests in the United States virtually
dictate congressional policy on some issues. With regard to the Arab-Israeli
conflict, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a few allies
have succeeded in imposing complete censorship on both houses of Congress.
No senator or representative dares make a speech on the floor of his or
her institution critical of Israeli policy, even though the Israeli government
often violates international law and UN Security Council resolutions (it
would violate more such resolutions, except that the resolutions never got
passed because only one NSC member, the U.S., routinely vetoes them on behalf
of Tel Aviv.) As the Labor Party in Israel has been eclipsed by the Likud
coalition, which includes many proto-fascist groups, this subservience has
yoked Washington to foreign politicians who privately favor ethnic cleansing
and/or aggressive warfare for the purpose of annexing the territory of neighbors.”

Bush’s neocon handlers no longer care to hide
the fact U.S. foreign policy is designed to make a “safer neighborhood
for Israel” and this project has so far cost the lives of around 250,000
Iraqis, a few thousand Americans, and billions of U.S dollars (in addition,
Israel has received $84.8 billion in grants, loans, and commodities from
the fleeced U.S. taxpayer since 1949, or around $23,000 per U.S. citizen,
according to research conducted by Richard H. Curtiss).

It appears the Straussian neocons are advertising that
the up-coming shock and awe attack on Iran is in the interest of Israel,
as Bolton’s speech before AIPAC reveals. Of course, since most Americans
don’t pay attention or can’t be bothered with such political
signals, considering such little more than irritating minutiae, they will
ultimately end up bamboozled once again by the Straussian neocons, determined
to squander all of America’s precious resources on invasions and occupations
in the name of Israel.

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